I managed to successfully clear UP yesterday with the help of a friendly group (my first full run of a heroic ) and was fiddling around with some threat builds based on the experience.

I wanted to try out a build that takes either 2/3 Spiked collar or 2/2 Silverback. Now the obvious way to do that is either dropping taunt or charge, but I don't feel entirely comfortable with losing the taunt and charge is useful to have available.

There is a small 1 sec overlap when distracting shot is still going but deterrence has worn off, time I recommend spent on disengaging or just feigning death. As far as I can see feigning while distracting is up just causes the mob to stare at you stupidly.

Of course it is not a true taunt with aggro reset, but it could potentially be useful for saving a healer or two. Incidentally I did not find threat a big issue during the run, but dps was quite low so suspect they were holding back a fair bit. I did learn to use Shell Shield at the start of pulls rather than waiting for "Oh %^%$" moments with it though.

Bear Behind wrote:>>>but then i started thinking..... perhaps we do have a second taunt with a 90 sec cd

Just theory here but soemthing i think is worth trying....

Taunt has a 3 min CD, or rather 2.1 mins with talents we'll all have. So taunt can be cast every 126 secs.

The second taunt on my mind is using distracting shot - followed by a deterrance.The idea being that the boss would take a second or 2 to reach you - you could pop on Deterrence and let him swing away while your pet builds aggro - then when the 6 sec taunt of distract shot wears off the boss should be on the pet again.>>>>